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<td class="v">22:1</td>
<td>A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.</td>
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<td class="v">22:2</td>
<td>The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.</td>
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<td class="v">22:3</td>
<td>A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.</td>
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<td class="v">22:4</td>
<td>By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.</td>
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<td class="v">22:5</td>
<td>Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.</td>
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<td class="v">22:6</td>
<td>Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.</td>
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<td class="v">22:7</td>
<td>The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.</td>
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<td class="v">22:8</td>
<td>He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.</td>
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<td class="v">22:9</td>
<td>He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.</td>
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<td class="v">22:10</td>
<td>Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.</td>
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<td class="v">22:11</td>
<td>He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.</td>
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<td class="v">22:12</td>
<td>The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.</td>
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<td class="v">22:13</td>
<td>The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.</td>
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<td class="v">22:14</td>
<td>The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.</td>
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<td class="v">22:15</td>
<td>Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.</td>
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<td class="v">22:16</td>
<td>He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.</td>
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<td class="v">22:17</td>
<td>Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.</td>
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<td class="v">22:18</td>
<td>For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.</td>
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<td class="v">22:19</td>
<td>That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.</td>
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<td class="v">22:20</td>
<td>Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,</td>
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<td class="v">22:21</td>
<td>That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?</td>
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<td class="v">22:22</td>
<td>Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:</td>
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<td class="v">22:23</td>
<td>For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.</td>
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<td class="v">22:24</td>
<td>Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:</td>
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<td class="v">22:25</td>
<td>Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.</td>
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<td class="v">22:26</td>
<td>Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.</td>
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<td class="v">22:27</td>
<td>If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?</td>
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<td class="v">22:28</td>
<td>Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.</td>
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<td class="v">22:29</td>
<td>Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.</td>
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